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But the single currency remains the scab at which the Tories keep on picking.
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"He has a scab on the top of his head but he does appear to be in good health, " he added.
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The unions, angry that the papers were being produced with scab labour and complaining of intimidation, called for a reader boycott.
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Using scab replacement refs is the equivalent of policing and adjudicating that well-paved highway with totally incompetent traffic cops and judges.
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His last appearance was in 1984 when Mr McLoughlin - a former miner - told delegates he would continue working despite being called a "Tory scab".
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Development of many vesicles will occur, which join together, eventually rupturing, and forming an open ulcer, which, characteristically will develop a black eschar, which is like a scab.
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Seger stressed that, on the whole, patients with spider bites recover fine if they follow medical instructions and keep their bite areas clean so that a scab can form and fall off.
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And while a scab on the wounds inflicted by Thatcherism communities by Thatcher grew during the years since her downfall in 1990, the death of the "Iron Lady" has brought them all back into the open.
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He was small to be six years old, but he had the largest knees that Frankie had ever seen, and on one of them there was always a scab or a bandage where he had fallen down and skinned himself.
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Yet here we are again, picking at the scab of this particular wound as the M23 rebel movement marches past UN soldiers who have been clinging on to DR Congo like the useless jungle weed that grows over everything yet provides neither protection nor sustenance to the citizens of Goma and beyond.
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